ANKA KRIZMANIĆ (Omilje near Zelina 1896 – Zagreb 1987) Already as a little girl Anka Krizmanić showed great interest and exceptional talent for drawing and panting. Her earliest preserved works date from 1908; two years later she will interrupt her gymnasium schooling and - as the youngest attendant – inscribe a famous painting school of Tomislav Krizman on Jelačić Square in Zagreb. Thanks to her talent and devotion, the young pupil has immediately made an excellent impression, which her teacher will also award. Actually he will include two of her drawings in Medulić exhibition opened 1910 in Art Pavilion in Zagreb. One 14-year old will thus find herself in elite fellowship of the most prominent Croatian painters and sculptors of the time as Krizman, Babić, Rački, Bukovac, Vidović, Meštrović, Rosandić and others.
MARIJAN TREPŠE (Zagreb, 1897 – Zagreb, 1964) Marijan Trepše finished the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb in the breaking year 1918 in the class of Professor Bela Čikoš-Sesija. In that early period he mostly paints under the influence of Miroslav Kraljević. Soon after the end of the First World War he leaves for Prague to study at the Academy, where he is mainly concerned in graphics, and gets a chance to become familiar with the works of German expressionism. Thereafter follows a stay in Paris between 1920 and 1922, where he works at the Académie de la Grande Chaumiere, and meets the paintings of Maurice de Vlaminck, which will result as exceptionally important for his later artistic creations. In that period he is exceptionally inclined to social themes and finds inspiration in city’s everyday scenes, preserving a kind of classicist tone in their accomplishments. In 1930-ies his palette becomes brighter and the forms more open. At that time he often paints nature motifs of Zagreb surroundings and of the Adriatic. He was also concerned with religious themes – especially Golgotha – which he treated with subtle feeling for the drama of the moment; however, he did not neglect in his paintings neither nudes, portraits nor still lives. Together with Uzelac, Gecan and Varlaj Trepše belonged to the Group of Four, participating at all exhibitions of the Spring Salon between 1919 and 1928. In Zagreb he exposed at solo exhibitions on six occasions, and later also in 1942 and 1962. A posthumous exhibition of his works was organised in 1969 while the retrospectives took place in 1975 and 2011.
ANTE KUDUZ (Podsoje near Vrlika 1935 – Zagreb 2011) After finishing School of Applied Arts in 1956, Ante Kuduz inscribes Graphic Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb. He graduates in 1964 in the class of Professor Marijan Detoni. He participates for the first time at a group exhibition during the years of his study, and prepares solo exhibitions since 1965. He will all together exhibit at about seventy solo and almost twice so many group exhibitions throughout Croatia, former Yugoslavia, Europe and the world. Since 1969 he is employed at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (since 1980 in the status of full professor). Apart from graphic works he has created noted works in painting and was exceptionally successful in applied arts of graphic design and in designing books, journals and catalogues. He lectured also at the Study of Design in Zagreb since its founding in 1989. Kuduz received a number of recognitions and awards for his work among which special mention deserve the Award of the Second Salon of Young Artists in Zagreb in 1969, the Award for graphics at the fifth Zagreb Art Salon in 1970, second award at the Second International Biennial of medieval artistic impulse 93 in Sežana in 1994, the award of the First CroatianTriennial of Graphic Art in Zagreb in 1997 and the Yearly award of Croatian Association of Artists for 2000. He is also the author of a number of noted graphic maps. Ante Kuduz formed as author in the 60-ties of the last century, in an ambience marked by exhibitions of New Tendencies and problems of optics and perception themes initiated by these exhibitions.
